Dr. Tomei was invited to be a panel moderator at the NIDDK:

This Collaborative Laboratory will allow the realization of cooperative educational and research opportunities for students, as well as faculty researchers in multiple disciplines. The approximately 5,850-square-foot laboratory is a centerpiece of the College’s strategic initiatives in both research and education. It is housed in the College’s McArthur Engineering Building, along with state-of-the-art labs and high-tech additive manufacturing equipment, which is rarely found at other top research universities. The facility provides access to a wide variety of advanced 3-D printers and fabricating equipment, and will have a full-time engineer/scientist available for training purposes. This will allow for the development of joint research and grant proposals, along with student capstone projects and firsthand experiential learning (for both undergraduate and graduate students) that will be an advantage in their post-academic careers. Representatives from Johnson & Johnson Services will collaborate with UM students and faculty to support research in the areas of materials development and advanced process development for medical applications.

BMES 2017 - Phoenix​Tomei lab rocked with 6 posters from graduate and undergraduate students and lots of networking

Dr. Tomei is invited to talk about conformal casting encapsulation at the Mayo Clinic seminar:Accelerating Pathways to Clinical Trials: An International Conference on Islet Regeneration and Replacement, Rochester (MN), Sept 29-30 2017

The lab is growing...Welcome Rachel Smith!

Summer '17 in the lab... Science never stops

​Health and Innovation: Nanotechnology for Medicine – Initiatives and perspectives

Dr. Tomei participates to the Health and Innovation: Nanotechnology for Medicine – Initiatives and perspectives which was held at the University of Miami on Wednesday June 14th 2017.

Team work for scaling-up our conformal coating platform

Lorena, Giuseppe and Alessandra are doing their BS thesis on designing parts for the scale-up version of the conformal coating encapsulation device under the supervision of Mike Lupp.

2017 Eureka Institute Training in Translational MedicineCongrats to Dr. Tomei for being selected to participate to the Course Certificate in Translational Medicine organized by the Eureka Institute for Translational medicine and thanks to the MIAMI CTSI for sponsoring Dr. Tomei's training.

2017 Research, Creativity and Innovation Forum (RCIF)Congrats to our super undergraduate students Divya Sha, Connor Verheyen and Joe Reda, who won 1st, 2nd and 3rd place at the RCIF forum for undergraduate research in engineering! Congrats also to Laura Morales for doing an excellent presentation, Aaron Stock for participating as a judge, and Vita Manzoli, Dr. Diana Velluto, Freddy Gonzalez, and Dr. Tomei for mentoring the students.

July 2016 - Dr. Tomei receives an R56 bridge funding award form the National Institute of Health (NIH) to allow regeneration of feasibility data for translation of conformal coating encapsulation encapsulation to clinical settings, mechanistic studies on graft survival and nano medicine approaches for platform refinements

September 2016 -A half million dollar grant had been awarded to Dr. Alice Tomei (BME Assistant Professor) and her co-PI Dr. Allison Bayer (Research Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology) from the International Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) in support of their continued research in developing novel therapeutic hydrogel with CCL21 and beta cell autoantigens.

June 2016 - Dr. Tomei receives the 2016 Provost’s Research Award

May 2016 - Dr. Tomei receives the prestigious JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) career development award (CDA) to support clinical translation of conformal coating encapsulation for 5 years.

BMES 2015 - TampaVita and Dr. Tomei give three oral presentations on the encapsulation and immunomodulation project. Diana presents two posters on nanomaterials application for transdermal delivery and encapsulation. Maria presents a poster on the effects of CCL21 on islet infiltrates in T1D. Connor and Kalina presents two posters on mechanical characterization of PEG ALGINATE hybrid capsules.

August 2015Connor Verheyen obtains the Honors Summer Research Award for his summer work in the lab

June 2015We finally received our rheometer for characterization of hydrogels for encapsulation and local delivery

June 6-8, 2015Dr. Tomei, Maria, Vita, and Dianaattend the American Diabetes Association (ADA) 75th scientific session 2015 in Boston, US and present three posters and two guided audio tours